TY -JOUR AU -Sheng-Zehn Yang AU -Chien-Fan Chen AU -Kun-Ping Lo AU -Guang-Pu Hsieh TI -Euphorbia graminea Jacquin (Euphorbiaceae), A Newly Naturalized Plant in Taiwan PY -2005 DA -0000-00-00 JO -Taiwania VL -50 IS -2 SP -131 EP -136 UR -https://taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/456 AB -Euphorbia graminea Jacquin, a species of the Euphorbiaceae native in Mexico, has naturalized in Pingtung county, southern Taiwan. E. graminea can be easily distinguished from the other species of genus Euphorbia as leaves are alternate, leaf-bracts are opposite and linear, seeds are ovate-rounded, angular and its surface are deeply punctate with pits in regular longitudinal rows. This paper provides a description of the species, line drawings and color photographs to aid in identification. DO -10.6165/tai.2005.50(2).131